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Former Kerala CM Oommen Chandy and other Kerala Congress leaders meet JNU students at university campus, in New Delhi.

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Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi with members of Fact-Finding Committee on the JNU Violence, in New Delhi. The Committee members Sushmita Dev, Syed Naseer Hussain and Amrita...

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Students and activists protest in support of JNU students in Mumbai

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Students and activists protest in support of JNU students in Mumbai.

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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan with Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Students Union President Aishe Ghosh during a meeting at Kerala House in New Delhi.

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DCP (Crime) Joy Tirkey releases photographs of suspects in JNU violence as Delhi Police PRO MS Randhawa (R) looks on, during a press conference in New Delhi

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JNU students hold placards during a protest against ABVP in New Delhi.

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JNU students hold placards during a protest against ABVP in New Delhi.

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JNU students during their protest march from Mandi House to HRD Ministry, demanding removal of the university vice-chancellor, in New Delhi.

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Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone meets JNUSU president Aishe Ghosh, at JNU campus in New Delhi.

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Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone visits JNU campus in solidarity with students and teachers who were attacked by masked miscreants on Sunday, in New Delhi.

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Former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar addresses a gathering on JNU violence on teachers and students, at JNU campus in New Delhi.

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CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, party leader Prakash Karat, members of Jawaharlal Nehru University Teachers' Association (JNUTA) and Jawaharlal Nehru University Students'...

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CPI General Secretary D Raja addresses a gathering on JNU violence as CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury, Swaraj Abhiyan chief Yogendra Yadav and others look on, at universit...

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Students stage a protest at main Gate of JNU over Sunday's violence, in New Delhi.

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Students stage a protest at main Gate of JNU over Sunday's violence, in New Delhi.

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Students stage a protest at main Gate of JNU over Sunday's violence, in New Delhi.

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Students stage a protest at main Gate of JNU over Sunday's violence, in New Delhi.

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AAP workers stage a protest condemning Sunday's attack at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University, at GPO in Lucknow.

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Students stage a protest at main Gate of JNU over Sunday's violence, in New Delhi.

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Needed: Fair And Practical Guidelines On Student Activism In Universities

Political activism by students has held up a beacon of hope and conscience across the world – from Chile to Hong Kong.

Jan 29, 2020

| Saikat Majumdar
JNU Fee-Hike Issue Settled, Student Protests No Longer Justified: HRD Minister

On January 5, a group of masked men and women entered the campus, assaulted students and teachers with sticks and hammers, destroyed property, including vehicles, and fled.

Jan 13, 2020

| Outlook Web Bureau
JNU VC Meets Students, Says 'Outsiders' In Hostels May Be Engaging In Violence

The VC said the administration has enhanced security in the campus to make sure that innocent students are not hurt.

Jan 11, 2020

| Outlook Web Bureau
'Shouldn't Be Allowed To Continue': BJP Leader Murli Manohar Joshi Calls For JNU VC's Removal

Murli Manohar Joshi Joshi said there were reports that the HRD Ministry had twice advised the JNU VC to implement a 'certain reasonable and working formula for resolving the issue of enhanced fees in JNU.'

Jan 09, 2020

| Outlook Web Bureau
No Deviation From HRD Ministry's Fee Hike 'Formula': JNU VC

Amid outrage by students over a proposed fee hike, the HRD Ministry had intervened last month and formed a three-member committee to resolve the stand-off between the university and its administration.

Jan 09, 2020

| PTI
'He Is The Past. He Should Leave JNU': Chidabaram On VC's Reaction To Mob Attack

Jagadesh Kumar, who has been under fire from students and faculty members for allegedly not doing enough when they were brutally attacked by a masked mob on the campus, urged the students on Tuesday to put the past behind and return to the varsity's premises.

Jan 08, 2020

| PTI
'Let's Make New Beginning, Put Past Behind': JNU VC Jagadesh Kumar

Jagadesh Kumar confirmed the registration process from the next semester had begun on campus. "Students can register for the winter semester now. Let us make a new beginning and put the past behind," he said.

Jan 07, 2020

| Outlook Web Bureau
As JNUSU President Aishe Ghosh Bled, Police Registered Two Cases Against Her

The university administration also alleged that JNUSU president and the group 'illegally trespassed the university property with the criminal intention to damage the public property...'

Jan 07, 2020

| Mirza Arif Beg
FIR Against JNUSU President Aishe Ghosh, Wounded in Mob Attack, For Vandalism

At least 34 people, including Ghosh, were injured and admitted to All India Isntitute of Medical Sciences following a burtal assault by a group armed with sticks, stones and hammers.

Jan 07, 2020

| Outlook Web Bureau
Live Updates: 'Violence Not A Solution, Will Make Sure Normalcy Returns,' Says JNU VC

As horrific first-person accounts emerged of the attack on Sunday evening, including on JNU Students Union president Aishe Ghosh, Delhi Police said that they have transferred the case to the Crime Branch, which claimed to have found 'vital clues.

Jan 07, 2020

| Outlook Web Bureau

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OPINION | Cops As Private Armies Of Politicians? Worth Surveying Citizen's Trust In Police

The obligation of the police is not only to control crime and maintain peace but to do in an unbiased and even-handed manner, writes Vipul Mudgal

Jan 16, 2020

| Vipul Mudgal
Might Is Right: How Parties In Power (Mis)Used The Indian Police Force

From atrocities on Jamia Millia Islamia and JNU students to firing on protesters in Nandigram, India's policemen have been puppets at the hands of political forces

Jan 16, 2020

| Bhavna Vij-Aurora
Police Imperil The People They Are Supposed To Protect

Politicisation has drained the police of public trust and made them into a partisan tool, writes Editor-in-chief Ruben Banerjee.

Jan 15, 2020

| Ruben Banerjee
Opinion | From 'Tukde Tukde Gang' To Saffronisation Of Faculty, Attacks On JNU Part Of 'Hindu Rashtra' Agenda

The relentless attacks on JNU seek to deter the young people resisting this regime’s agenda of establishing a Hindu Rashtra

Jan 09, 2020

| Nivedita Menon
January 5, A Blood Sunday At JNU: More Questions Than Answers. Did Police Right The Wrongs?

Jawaharlal Nehru University will continue to remain in the news as students demand the Vice Chancellor's resignation and protest against fee hike. But there is more than meets the eye

Jan 09, 2020

| Jyotika Sood
'I Do Criticise Economic Policies Pursued By Modi Govt': FM Sitharaman's Husband Parakala Prabhakar

Parakala Prabhakar says he penned a critical piece talking about the economic slowdown and also opposed Centre's way of dealing with the JNU protests.

Dec 04, 2019

| M.S. Shanker
Trust Deficit Between Students And Authorities Gives Rise To Unrest: Murli Manohar Joshi

As campuses around the country erupt with discontent, former HRD minister Dr Murli Manohar Joshi tells Outlook that trust deficit between students and authorities is high.

Nov 28, 2019

| Bhavna Vij-Aurora
OPINION | Our Society Loves Kota's 'Education Shops', Not Tagore's Shantiniketan

Professor Avijit Pathak sees an organised attack on Jawaharlal Nehru University. He wonders why there is a mood of skepticism towards humanities

Nov 28, 2019

| Avijit Pathak
OPINION | It'll Be A Shame If People From Disadvantaged Sections Can't Study At JNU

In India, people have lost faith in the university. We need to have more trust between nation and university, writes Professor Saikat Majumdar

Nov 28, 2019

| Saikat Majumdar
We Are Fighting To Save Last Bits Of JNU’s Essence: JNUSU President Aishe Ghosh

JNU could have become one of the world’s best universities, but successive governments have failed us, says Aishe Ghosh, President, JNUSU, who is pursuing MPhil in international relations at the university.

Nov 28, 2019

| Outlook
Education Not A Commodity, It's A Public Good: Shehla Rashid

A country can be a leader in the knowledge domain only if education is free, says Shehla Rashid, former vice president, JNUSU

Nov 28, 2019

| Outlook
BJP Govt Constantly Attacking Universities: AMU Students Union Honorary Secretary

"Today, the fees at JNU have been increased; tomorrow, it will happen at other universities, including AMU. This government is constantly attacking the universities," says Huzaifa Aamir Rashadi, Honorary secretary AMU students union, 2018-19

Nov 28, 2019

| Outlook